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From: "Allen Williams" <Allen.Williams@PrimeNet.Com>
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Date:          Fri, 14 Jul 1995 13:24:35 -0800
Subject:       my screwey setup
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Hi! I have a question. I think this IS covered in a faq somewhere, 
but for the life of me I can't find it.

I have a very simple system I want to run freebsd on to play with, 
but its not cooperating. :( it's a 386-20 with 1mb of ram above the 
base 640k, cga, a standard mfm controller that runs two drives (one 
80mb and one 40mb), and a 1.44 floppy.

when i tired to run 1.1, it basically worked except that it saw my 
drive as having 1 cyl 1 head 17 sectors and never asked me anything 
about the geometry or the disklabel. I couldn't find anything 
anywhere that covered THAT problem, so I decided to try a 2.0.5 
snapshot. on this one, it starts booting and sez TEXT=0x100000 (im 
not sue thats the address) and then does its | / - \ | i'm-busy 
thing. :) after it does that, it drops about a line and a half more 
text onto the screen. I dont know what it says, because it 
immediately reboots at that point.

any information you can give me would be appreciated. I saw lots of 
stuff in the docs about systems with cool, wierd stuff that makes it 
hard to setup and run bsd.. but this is the least imaginative system 
i can think of. i couldnt find much help in the docs about systems 
that suck so bad it makes it hard to setup! :)

thanks in advance..
-allen